The Green team beat the White team on Saturday in Eastern Michigan University football’s Annual Spring Game 43-41 and first-year coach Chris Creighton would be the first to admit the game was not pretty.

The court was packed as 20-year-old Ed Jermeal Thomas and Kaivon Kristopher Pratt of Detroit were led through separate doors of courtroom 9 of the Washtenaw County Trial Court in Ann Arbor, Tuesday. The Detroit men were charged with multiple felonies including armed robbery and the murder of EMU wide receiver Demarius Reed, a junior originally from Chicago majoring in communications.

National Signing Day is often compared to celebrating the birth of a team for fans of college football, as well as the high school students and junior college transfers who are preparing for their first taste of Division I football.

National Signing Day in college football is tomorrow. It is the day high school football players from around the country take the next step in a higher level of football and sign on with a college to play.

The preliminary hearing for Kristopher Pratt, 20 and Ed Thomas, 20, two men accused of killing Eastern Michigan University football player Demarius Reed was scheduled for today, Wednesday Jan. 29 at 2 p.m. in the 14A-1 District Court in Pittsfield Township.

Eastern Michigan University football head coach Chris Creighton received his first three commitments for the 2014 season today, including two offensive linemen in-state— Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice High School’s Jeremy Hickey and Dewitt High School’s Christopher Bukoski.